Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snatched from Acting Secretary of the Treasury Dean Acheson's crowded schedule were about all Sir Frederick, cooling his heels in the British Embassy, had to show for his visit. Then President Roosevelt instituted his new monetary program and it became clear that it would be futile to discuss debt settlement until it could be determined where the dollar would finally come to roost in relation to the pound. That was the subject of the second, last and longest (one hour) conference which the President had with Sir Frederick and Sir Ronald...
...whether or not to proclaim martial law in Wisconsin, looked troubled and tiny beside moose-tall William Langer of North Dakota, who chews cigars with the cellophane wrapper peeled halfway down and whose wheat embargo was one of the starkest symptoms of the matter they had all come to discuss. Accompanied by big, rawboned George Peek and cadaverous Secretary Wallace, their briefcases bulging with statistics, they were shown up the broad stairs to the Oval Room where President Roosevelt awaited them...
Ailing Madeleine Force Astor Dick, second wife of the late John Jacob Astor, arrived in Manhattan from Bermuda. She refused to discuss her engagement to Italian Enzo Fiermonte, onetime boxing instructor to her sons, who fortnight ago accused Vincent Astor, Mrs. Dick's stepson and President Roosevelt's good friend, of using "influence" to keep him out of Bermuda and the U. S. Indignant Edith Searle, Mrs. Dick's English secretary, told newshawks: "What a hungry mob of vultures you are! What dirty dogs! What torturers and persecutors!" Still suffering from a broken arm incurred two months...
...daughter of the late Philander Chase Knox. onetime Senator from Pennsylvania, Attorney-General in the McKinley and Roosevelt Cabinets, Secretary of State under Taft, was found running errands as a page girl in Pittsburgh's Union Trust Co., controlled by Andrew William Mellon. Canny Miss Knox refused to discuss her job, remarked: "I'm interested in learning banking or I wouldn't be here...
...procedure thus far followed by the office is to invite students to come and discuss their problems. The Consultant may tender some statistics on salaries, or the demands of each type of work. Helpful as these may be, they do not satisfy the most vital need of the student. That need is not so much a knowledge of the conditions in the professions, or in civil engineering, or in salesmanship, for in a general way everyone knows what abilities are demanded. The important question which haunts the minds of hundreds of students is, "Do I possess these abilities...